styli

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A plural of stylus.

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n. Irregular plural form of stylus.

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Examples

Stantum Offering Demo, Evaluation & Development Board Based on Its Patented Resistive Multi-Touch Technology SAN DIEGO, September 23, 2008 - At the SID Mobile Displays Conference today, Stantum Technologies (www. stantum.com), a pioneer developer of multi-touch sensing technology, today introduced a demo, evaluation and development board based on its patented PMatrix ™ resistive multi-touch technology, which lets users simultaneously move an unlimited number of fingers, nails or utensils (such as styli) on a screen.

The big problem for tablet PCs for me besides weak screen hinges and losing styli.. ugh was that operating systems they run have been designed and tweaked over decades for point-and-click with a keyboard and mouse and just don't work well when shoehorned to fit a finite-point tap-and-draw interface.

I know there were chad problems in Florida in 2000, but wouldn't better maintenance on the punch card apparatus - sharper styli, chad clearing from the holes and ballot verification have been a cheaper and simpler solution?